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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · The wars & local soldiers
1,377 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 11 of 69
"Spain is being used for a rehearsal in the use of modern armaments," declared the Premier of Spain (Sonar J. Negrin) at a reception to foreign…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →A surprise party at the home of Mrs. R. Taylor, Teralba-road, Broadmeadow. was arraged by the Lunch Club to welcome home one of its members,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →"If the war lasts through the summer, a European conflict, started by Italy and Germany, is inevitable," declared the Spanish Premier in a Barcelona…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →For the first time on record the export of meat exceeded that of dairy products last year. Exports of meat to the United…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →"The war is already on. The Nationalists' only problem lies in reaping the fruits of victory," General Franco told Mr. H. A. R. Philby, the special…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →During January and February, 6430 membership subscriptions were received by the N.S.W. branch of the Returned Soldiers' League as…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Twenty years after the end or the war aa employees patriotic fund in Newcastle now amounting to £1049 12s 7d is to be wound up…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The State Secretary of the New South Wales branch of the Returned Soldiers League (Mr. J. Black) announced yesterday that in January and February 6430…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A British officer was slightly wounded and a soldier killed when troops encountered armed Arths near the village of Yamnun, which lies west of Jenin…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →The entertainment of the ex-Imperial members of the various country sub-branches, who may be visiting Sydney on Anzac Day, is being…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Last year the united Anzac Day service was held in Shortland Park, but it was found that the area fronting Newcastle Beach was not big enough to accommodate…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →"China will lose battles, but will win the war," says General Wu Tek-chen, Governor of Kwantung…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →So many requests for clothing are being made on the Newcastle Women's Auxiliary of the Returned Soldiers' League that it is unable to meet the…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Fire bombs are perhaps, more dangerous than explosive and gas bombs, in the opinion of Mr. Duncan Sandys, M.P…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →A returned soldier should get the first offer of every job, said the Social Secretary of the Limbless Soldiers' Association (Mr. Godfrey) at a meeting of Woy Woy…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A remarkably outspoken declaration on the world situation was made by the Prime Minister (Mr. Neville Chamberlain) when, with characteristic frankness, he introduced the defence debate in the House of Commons…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →When a rifle, which was being carried by a boy on the dairy farm of Mr. W. G. Minett, Upper Lansdowne, bumped a post, and was discharged, today,…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Hostilities in China have already exerted a markedly unfavorable influence on Japan's tourist trade. Only about half the normal number…
Continued on Trove, page 16 →John Henry Fishwick, 22, of Harrison-street, Barnoldswick, a private in the Duke of Wellington's Regiment, stationed at Halifax,…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →A tribal feud is raging in Arnhem Land and wholesale killings have occurred, according to aborigines who arrived in Darwin on the Methodist Mission…
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